An example of an incorporeal right is a legal right or claim against a person on contract or tort, which the 2008 Quebec Civil Code, at §1782-1784, refers to as a "litigious right" adding that (to prevent conflicts of interest):

"No judge, advocate, notary or officer of justice may acquire litigious rights, on pain of absolute nullity of the sale."

Another incorporeal right is a right to a portion of an estate or, again using the terminology of the Quebec Civil Code, "succession rights" (§1799).

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